Description
Set in northern Italy across the turbulent decades of the 1930s and 1940s, this novel brings to life two families living opposite each other in a small town, their lives braided together by proximity, memory, and unspoken feeling. Through intimate family portraits—full of everyday routines, private resentments, and quiet acts of loyalty—Natalia Ginzburg reveals how love and longing can coexist with silence, secrecy, and the slow accumulation of loss. As tensions surface and relationships shift, the story turns on the personal consequences of a world growing darker, showing how history enters the home through manners, misunderstandings, and what people refuse to say. With Ginzburg’s clear-eyed, humane style and her talent for capturing emotional truth in ordinary moments, the novel becomes a meditation on time, identity, and the yesterdays that shape who we become.
Available Editions
paperback
Arcade Pub
Published Jan 1, 1989
300 pages
ISBN: 9781559700269
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Details
First Published
1952
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg.